Posted: April 20, 2024
Malpractice In Hospitals
Little Rock Medical Malpractice Lawyer Serving All of Arkansas
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Posted: March 21, 2022
The most basic duty that any doctor has is to listen and pay attention to you. If they don't listen, and don't take the time to perform a thorough examination, they will never get the information they need to actually help you. A doctor who doesn't listen to your symptoms of chest pain isn't going to try to find out what is causing your chest pain. A doctor who doesn't examine your child carefully is going to miss symptoms of meningitis. A nurse who rushes through getting your information in an emergency department isn't going to write down what needs to go into your records. And then
Posted: June 10, 2019
In analyzing whether you have a good medical malpractice case, we’ll look at three issues:
1. Did the Doctor Make an Inexcusable Mistake?
It is not enough in a medical malpractice case to prove that a doctor made a mistake. Some mistakes are excusable and are not medical malpractice.
For example, during a surgery, a doctor may accidentally cut something he didn’t intend to cut. This is probably medical malpractice, but in some cases may be an excusable mistake, and therefore not medical malpractice.
Posted: October 8, 2018
One of the most consistent goals of so-called “tort reform” is to put an upper limit on the amount that a defendant has to pay for the damage he causes in injury suits. For example, in Texas, where there are such limits, a doctor can kill a child or a housewife or a grandfather through malpractice and only have to pay a maximum of $250,000 for doing so—no matter how bad the negligence. That’s it: the value placed on human life is $250,000.
Posted: March 12, 2018
Wrongful Death Lawsuits
At my firm we handle a variety of Wrongful Death lawsuits. Because we work on so many medical malpractice cases, most of the Wrongful Death suits we handle are also medical malpractice cases.
Just yesterday, I had a client call us about a medical malpractice case, but she wanted to know if we also handle Wrongful Death cases. Since many people have asked this question over the years, I thought now would be a good time to talk about what a Wrongful Death case is.
